Test 14 · ★ · Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179…

yo, how far off was the shore when the ship went down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ship · What happens: be, go down · To what, where: shore

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 968 «Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 shore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 off	advmod
5	off	off	ADV	_	8 shore	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shore	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shore	det
8	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	vocative
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 went	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ship	det
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the shore				off property	tree rules
2	go down	past	the ship					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

about two miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 miles	nummod
3	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

about a mile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	3 mile	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mile	det
3	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

far out past the sandbars near the open sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 out	advmod
2	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
3	past	past	ADP	_	5 sandbars	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sandbars	det
5	sandbars	sandbar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 out	obl
6	near	near	ADP	_	9 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sea	amod
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sandbars	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

nearly a league

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 league	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 league	det
3	league	league	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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